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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1966
Page
1
Cape Kennedy AP reports Gemini 9 drifted with low fuel as astronauts Cernan and Stafford slept 10 hours. Cernan plans a 22 hour spacewalk Sunday while controllers warned they will not extend the troubled mission if conditions worsen.
Gemini 9 pilots Thomas Stafford and Eugene Cernan face long hours in space. With Chief Flight Surgeon Charles A. Berry monitoring vital signs, sleep periods extend to over two hours and a planned 24 hour rest follows a demanding rendezvous with the crippled satellite. Ground control approves delay of the EVA to the next day.
Senator Robert Kennedy began a speaking tour of white South Africa with a welcome from university students at Jan Smuts Airport in Johannesburg. He underscored global interdependence and the need to discuss shared problems while noting Africa's majority population. The ceremony featured heavy security and a warm, mixed reception from crowds and officials.
California voters head to the polls Tuesday to choose between Ronald Reagan and George Christopher for the GOP nomination as Gov. Edmund G. Brown seeks a third term. The race, once bitter between Goldwater supporters and moderates, centers on Reagan’s rise and Christopher’s bid amid Brown’s campaign against both.
Astronaut Eugene Cernan heads outside Gemini 9 to snag a micrometeorite pack for life in space study. The experiment seeks evidence of living organisms in space and tracks origin of dust particles, with analysis set after Gemini 9 returns to Earth.
Wallace Mort Tracy Jr., seven, of Fifth Street Princeton, was non critically injured when struck by a car driven by Julian Lee Sammons, 24, of Christie Avenue Princeton. He was crossing Mercer Street around 4 30 p m Saturday and taken to Memorial Hospital Princeton with cuts bruises and abrasions.
Governor Romney told Bethany College graduates that every American should spend two years in military or civilian service between ages 16 and 30. He proposed a voluntary program, either at home or abroad, under government or private auspices, to be fairer than universal or mixed service. He received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree at Bethany. Others honored included Mrs. Harris and several professors. West Virginia and Salem colleges scheduled commencements Sunday while Concord and Alderson-Broaddus graduate Monday.
Pasadena scientists report Surveyor 1 continues to snap pictures widely as it rests on the Moon’s Sea of Storms. The 620-pound craft has sent nearly 2,000 images from its landing site and researchers recheck landing pods while refining wide angle surveys.
In the Dominican Republic the election produced a clear Balaguer win with near sixty percent while the leftist PRD faced discredit. Officials from the OAS deemed the vote fair and quiet, as Bosch vows to pursue fraud allegations under party pressure amid a tense political realignment.
Alice Calhoun Chotiner once called the aristocrat of the screen died in Los Angeles from cancer at 65. Born in Cleveland she acted in 52 Vitagraph and Warner Bros. films 1916 to 1923 including The Man Next Door and The Angel of Crooked Street. Funeral at Forest Lawn Tuesday. She left a husband Max C. Chotiner and brother Joseph C. Calhoun.
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Quebec reports a 27 day dock strike with dynamite blasts at the waterfront. About 50 strikers set cars afire and threw a truck into the St Lawrence River while police and mounted officers maintain control. No injuries reported, court orders limit picketing.
A 50 year old Roger Stewart of Five Forks died when a tractor struck a stump and overturned in a York County field. Sheriff A S White said he had finished plowing before the incident.
In Hue Vietnam, a convoy with armored personnel carriers and about 500 infantry moved in to reinforce patrols as the crisis was declared over by U.S. and Vietnamese officials. A Hue student leader urged relinquishing weapons while Buddhist protests escalate with self immolations.
David Ball a 17 year old paralyzed since a swimming accident last summer watched a Hurricane High School concert from a wheelchair. He has begun to regain partial use of his arms and recently graduated with honors. The community started the David Ball Fund to support his goal of attending Morris Harvey College. A band concert and parade raised 170 dollars with more fundraising planned to reach 8000 dollars. local officials praise his grit and community support.
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